Japan - Kobe - Enormous Floating Dock

The enormous floating dock at the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Yard at Kobe, Japan. The liner Hakozaki Maru SS (pictured being finished in the dock) was taken over by the Japanese government during the Second World War for service as a transport. On March 19th, 1945, when in the Yellow Sea, she was torpedoed and sunk by the U.S. submarine USS Balao

Dockyard Enormous Kobe Maru Mitsubishi

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